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This is the fourth Gerber poetry book published by Copper Canyon Gerber's work has appeared in many popular national publications, including The New Yorker, Poetry, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, and The NationBorn and raised in Michigan, Gerber retains strong ties to the Midwest, winning the Mark Twain Award for Distinguished Contributions to Midwestern Literature, a Michigan Authors Award, and the Society of Midland Authors awardGerber's fict...

Zen-like attention-to nature and the human heart-is the through-line in Particles, the life-work of a rare American poet.

Keine Beschreibung.

Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets." -Annie Dillard

This novel is one of Dan Gerber's triumphs. From the author of "American Atlas, " "Out of Control, " and "GrassFires, " Gerber's "A Voice From the River "followed "Grass Fires "to prominence on national bestseller lists. This novel once again affirms the Gerber's solid reputation for writing about the confrontation of the Spirit World and what some consider to be the Last of Days.

Dan Gerber's poetry is influenced by Zen attentiveness, childhood memories, and deep connections with nature.

A Second Life brings together the best of Dan Gerber's previously published essays and magazine stories, many of which have appeared in magazines such as Outside, Playboy, Sports Afield, and Sports Illustrated, with several new pieces. Gerber limns his experience as a professional racing driver, journalist, sailor, and fisherman with a poet's eye and a novelist's gift for narrative, believing, as he states in his introduction, that our truest ...

Dan Gerber's Trying to Catch the Horses is his first full-length collection since his I highly acclaimed selected poems, A Last Bridge Home, published in 1992. Many of these fifty-eight poems have appeared in the finest literary magazines and anthologies, including Poetry, New Letters, The Ohio Review, and The Best American Poetry 1999, selected by Robert Bly.Long recognized as a meditative poet with an almost mystical connection to animals an...

American Atlas brings to the traditional "road" novel an exhilarating breath of fresh air -- or perhaps one should say a catastrophic gale. The hero is no penniless wanderer who subsidizes his cross-country trek by stealing chickens and hubcaps. He is Lawrence Bancroft who starts the novel off with a bang by walking out on his father's funeral and his position as heir to a multimillion-dollar pie company. Bancroft wants to be a poet and he pur...

The varied inhabitants of Brainard, Michigan, examine their lives and losses in distinct, matter-of-fact voices. A heart attack victim crashes into his brother-in-law's funeral parlor in the title story, the deaf-mute of "Conversation" begins his tale with the simple sentence, "I don't think I've really had a conversation with anyone since my father died." Dan Gerber's characters are capable of extraordinary compassion and everyday cruelty, an...